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HOMES & LAND Real Estate To Be Marketed Nationally
Will Use Color Photos on New Kodak Picture Exchange
Image Transmission Network
NEW YORK, Aug. 25__The new Kodak Picture Exchange image
transmission network from Eastman Kodak Company will
transform real estate marketing for Homes & Land magazine and
its customers. Kodak announced that Homes & Land Publishing
Corp., the nation's largest publisher of real estate
magazines, will use Kodak's global image transmission service
to help Homes & Land's real estate clients market their
products.
"Photographs of the valuable homes currently listed for
sale in Homes & Land magazine will now be available to real
estate agents to view in color nationwide, with desktop
computers, using the Kodak Picture Exchange," said Stephen S.
Stepnes, general manager and vice president of Kodak's CD
Imaging unit.
"Homes & Land will use our Photo CD products in the
production of their magazines," Stepnes said. "They will be
the first to use the power of our image access network to
sell high-value products, where pictures can play an
important role in enhancing the sales and marketing process,"
Stepnes added.
"The entire thrust of our Homes & Land magazines is that
valuable real estate demands high-quality images to stimulate
sales," said Del Archibald, chairman of Homes & Land
Publishing Corp. "The Kodak Picture Exchange is an exciting
new vehicle to enhance our marketing directions across the
United States," Archibald continued, "but Photo CD
technology, which enables all this, means even more to us.
The digitization of high-resolution photographs onto Photo CD
discs will allow us to further streamline our
state-of-the-art production process. This system provides
the size, speed, and quality that we have not found in other
systems we have tested. We are excited about the many
aspects of this new technology."
Homes & Land Publishing Corp., which has more than 300
magazines in print or under contract in 45 states, will
purchase the Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstation 2400 (PIW
2400), which it will use to create Kodak Photo CD discs. The
company will use the high-resolution photographic-quality
Photo CD images in prepress preparation of its Homes & Land
magazines and in the newly announced Kodak Picture Exchange.
Over 700,000 real estate photos are taken annually for use
in Homes & Land magazines. All photos separated at the home
office will be converted to Photo CD format at Homes & Land's
Tallahassee, Florida, headquarters. Using these photos in
the Kodak Picture Exchange network, Homes & Land magazines
will become the first participant in a national real estate
image network.
"This use by Homes & Land of the Photo CD system and the
Kodak Picture Exchange represents the benefits of Kodak's
expanded vision for film-based images," Stepnes said. "We
have always envisioned a significant market for real estate
applications. As the leading upscale medium for selling
homes in the United States, Homes & Land is the ideal
customer for Kodak to expand its services."
Using the Kodak Picture Exchange and a color desktop
computer, real estate agents will have immediate access to
color photos of the houses and properties listed in Homes &
Land magazines on a local as well as a national basis.
Those interested in more information about the Kodak
Picture Exchange may call the Kodak Information Center at
1-800-242-2424, ext. 55.
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[Kodak is a trademark.]